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...stamp for each purchase over ten dollars, and once you've collected ten stamps, you get a 20 percent discount on a single purchase of up to $200," said Amy M. Arnold, an employee of the Harvard Bookstore...
...fond of saying that "in a record of more than 12,000 votes, you can make a case for just about anything." So the accomplishments he chose to highlight in that tearful moment were instructive. Dole spoke movingly of his role in creating and expanding the food-stamp and school-lunch programs. He recalled sponsoring both the Women, Infants and Children Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Those achievements, he said without saying so explicitly, were his legacy. They embodied his belief that "government does a lot of good things," a line he sometimes dashed off on the stump...
...here are all these people in the street with no right to get any help.'" Clinton urged states to follow a Kansas City program that converts public assistance money into paying jobs. Under the program, a public-private partnership called the Local Investment Commission funnels federal welfare and food stamp money to an agency that uses the money to give employers wage supplements of $500 a month for each former welfare recipient they hire. The new employee continues to receive health-care and day-care benefits for four years. Clinton, who angered liberal Democrats by signing the bill, is trying...
...welfare bill that Clinton has signed. At the convention, Clinton will promise to "finish the job" with tax incentives and other proposals designed to create 1 million jobs for welfare recipients. Morris is confident that next year Clinton will be able to fix the bill's biggest problems--food-stamp cuts and the benefits it strips from legal immigrants. "Welfare reform is a process, not a bill," Morris says. "This was a historic beginning, not the end of the story. I'm convinced the story has a happy ending...
...hassle really worth it? Is it worth the press secretaries and out-of-town contractors strutting around as if they own the place? Is it worth the endless sniping by high-brow media executives about the postage-stamp size of our beautiful convention center? Is it worth the hundreds of thousands of hours of effort...